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Hi, |
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On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 10:22:06PM +0800, Florian Kielenbeck wrote: |
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> My name is Florian Kielenbeck. I am a moderator at the german |
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> Gentoo-Forum http://www.gentooforum.de. |
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My name is Wernfried Haas, I am administrator of the official Forums |
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on https://forums.gentoo.org, which also includes a German section. |
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> For more than three years know we provided a platform for the german |
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> gentoo-community. |
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Who is we? I have followed the history of gentooforum.de, and as far i |
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know the original owner gave/sold the domain to someone else. |
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Furthermore the German community has lots of platforms on both |
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www.gentoo.de as well as within the gentoo.org domain, including the |
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German forums on http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum.php?f=28. |
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In fact, i see only little use in splitting the community by having |
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yet another forum - i said that when gentooforum.de was announced |
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(without prior contact to the "official" German community) 3 years ago |
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and i still don't see the point. |
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> However, we are missing some Salt in our soup and so we would like |
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> to invite all german-speaking developers to our forum. |
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Dude, it's our lucky day if the developers show up on the official |
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forums, they usually hide on irc and mailing lists (apart from a few |
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brave warriors that frequent even the forums) :-) |
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> We have recognized, that the german community is probably one of the |
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> strongest in the world and we would like to help to keep that |
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> situation. |
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In what way does gentooforum.de contribute to the community apart from |
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giving them a forum that rather splits the community than support it? |
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> With some developers on board, we could provide 1st-class |
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> support for users |
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Read: "We need some developers to show off and get more people on our |
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forums pages because more people click more ads. |
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> and organize community-events like meetings or fairs. |
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That's nothing specific to gentooforum.de and has even been done |
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outside your forum, if you care about the community join us instead of |
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trying to get people over to your place. |
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> We are looking forward to see *you* on www.gentooforum.de, helping |
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> to keep the german community chained together! |
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How does it help chain the community together? In fact, all i see are |
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topics being duplicated on both f.g.o and gentooforum.de or even |
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crossposted. |
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All i see from gentooforum.de are questionable attempts to build up |
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_their_ community without even thinking about the community as a |
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whole. |
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Sorry for the strong words, but imho gentooforum.de always did more |
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damage than help anyone. |
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cheers, |
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Wernfried |
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Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne at gentoo dot org |
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Gentoo Forums: http://forums.gentoo.org |
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